Writer and Lived In Contributor

After her children grew up and, one-by-one, left their house in the city, Kathie Collins moved to a gorgeous slice of wooded farmland near the Yadkin River in East Bend, NC, where she spends many hours communing with the birds and her overpacked bookshelves.

She is co-founder and creative director of Charlotte Center for Literary Arts and editor-in-chief of Charlotte Lit Press. Kathie is author of Jubilee (Main Street Rag). Her poems have appeared in Kakalak, Pedestal Magazine, Santa Fe Literary Review, and others. She’s a 2023 Pushcart nominee, and her poetry manuscript Grass Widow was named a finalist in both the Iron Horse Lit Review and Palette Poetry 2023 Chapbook competitions.